Securing device for railroad-ties.



No. 694,343. 1 Patented mar. 4, |902..

A; s. ALLEN, v

SEBIIRIRB DEVICE FUR RAILRDAD TIES. (Applition leg Mar; 30, 1901.7

(No Indem,

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

AARON URR ALLEN, OF PUEBLO, COLORADO.

SECURING DEVICE FOR RAILROAD-TIES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 694,343, dated March 4,1902.

Application filed March 30, 1901. Serial No. 53,715. (No model.)

To all 1071.077@ it may concern:

Be it known that I, AARON BURR ALLEN, a citizen of the UnitedStates,residing at Pueblo, in the county of Pueblo and State ofColorado, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in SecuringDevices foi-Railroad# Ties; and I do hereby declare the following to bea full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as willenable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and usethe same.

My invention relates to railroad-ties and cooperating securing devicesdesigned to engage and hold the rail in the desired position upon thetie, though permitting the rail to be readily removed as desired forpurposes of replacement or repair.

The object of my invention is to provide means for securing the rail sofirmly and securely to the tie that casual displacement of the rail willbe utterly impossible, my securing device being so constructed that itwill cooperate with the rail at any point thereof, either at a pointwhere the lish-plate is located in joining the ends of two railstogether or at any part of the rail where said fish-plate is notpresent, this result being attained without any inconvenience or extracost of work.

Other objects and advantages will be made fully apparent from thefollowing specification, considered in connection with the accompanyingdrawings, in which- Figure l is a perspective view of my invention asapplied to use, the securing device being shown in position directlyopposite the fish-plate. Fig. 2 is a transverse section of the rail andcontiguous parts shown in Fig. l. Fig. 3 shows by a transverse sectionof the rail my securing device as applied to use at a point thereonwhere there is no fish-plate. Fig. et is a perspective detail viewshowing the plate employed to cooperate with the head of the bolt. Fig.5 is a perspective detail view of cooperating parts of my invention.

The elements of my invention and cooperating accessories will forconvenience be designated by numerals, the same numeral referring to thesame part throughout the several views.

. Referring to the numerals on the drawings,1 illustrates a railroad-tiepreferably formed of somesuitable metal and provided at a point lthereonwith two openings for each rail, the said openings being preferablyoblong Vin character and adapted to snugly receive the rectangularoblong extension or anchoring member 2,Which latter is preferably soformed that it will comprise an integral part of lthe locking-section ordisk-like extension or base 3, saidv base being preferably thickened, asindicated by the numeral 4.

The anchoring member 2 is provided with a threaded aperture, asindicated by the nnmeral 5, said threaded aperture extending entirelythrough the parts 3 and 4, and is designed to receive the threaded stem6, said threaded stem being provided with a preferably octagonall head7, the lower side of which is so shaped as to conform in outline to theupper surface of the base of the rail, as indicated by the numeral 8. Byreference to Fig. 5 and other views it will be observed that thethreaded aperture in the anchoring member 2 is located near one endthereof, the object of` which is, as will be obvious by reference to thedrawings, to bodily adjust the position of 4 the threaded stem and itshead with respect to the base of the rail and to compensate for thepresence or absence of the fish-plate, as will be hereinafter morespecifically setforth.

While I desire to comprehend in practice all of the relativedimensions-and sizes which circumstances may demand in forming thedierent cooperating parts of my invention, we will for purposes ofillustration suppose that the distance from one end of theanchoringmember 2 to the edge of the aperture ois one-half inch, leaving thedistance from the opposite end of the anchoring member to the edge-ofthe threaded aperture one inch. This illustration is based upon thesupposition that lthe iish-plate employed is one-half inch in thickness,and it will be clear that by a proper adjustment of the anchoring memberwithin its oblong opening in the tie will insure that the under side ofthe head of the bolt will be brought snuglyin engagement either directlywith the surface of the base of the rail or directly in contact with thefish-plate, as the case may be. A

Designed to cooperate with the head of the bolt and to reinforce andsustain the same when disposed in its operative position is the IOOsupporting base-plate 9, provided with an unthreaded aperture 10,through which the stem (3 loosely passes. The said plate is alsothickened upon its outer edge, thus providing the upwardly-extendingbeveled surface 11, designed to exactly coincide with the shape of thecontiguous part of the bevel 8 upon the head 7. The extreme outer edgeofthe plate 9 is also provided with the vertically-disposed extension orlip 12, the entire plate being formed of suitable material, which willpermit'the edge 12 to be bent downward into engagement with the edge ofthe head 7, as illustrated in Fig. 1. It will thus be observed that theedge 12 is designed to act as a nutlock and prevent the casual reverserotation of the head 7, inasmuch as the inner edge of cures the rail inan adjusted position.

the plate 9 contacts directly with the edge of the base of the rail orfish-plate, thereby preventing said plate from turning. The head 7 is ofsufficient width to extend the proper distance over the base of the railor contiguous fish-plate, thereby insuring that the rail will besecurely locked in an adjusted position. The location of the threadedaperture 5 in the anchoring member 2 being eccentrically disposed withreference to the base-section 3 enables me to readily dispose the entirethreaded stein 6 very near the base of the rail or sufficiently awaytherefrom to permit the fish plate to be interposed, as clearly shown inthe drawing. It is therefore obvious that I am by means of the simplereliably efficient construction set forth enabled to compensate for thepresence or absence of the fishplate, which in the drawings is indicatedby the numeral 13, it being understood that the edge of the head of thebolt may be extended sufliciently to insure that a proper grasp will besecured upon the base.

In Figs. 2 and 3 I have illustrated two different applications ot' myinvention to use. In Fig. 3 it will be observed that the securing deviceis located in engagement with the fish-plate, while in Fig. 2 thefish-plate is entirely absent. In both instances it will be observedthat the head of the bolt reliably se- By reference to Fig. 2 it will beobserved that the anchoring member 2 is so disposed within the openingin the tie that the threaded stem 6 is nearest the outer end thereof,while in Fig. 3 it will be seen that the threaded stem is so disposedthat it will be nearer the inner end of the anchoring member 2, thisresult being accomplished by properly entering the anchoring memberwithin the opening designed to receive it. When, forinstance, thesecuring device happens to come directly opposite the fish-plate uponthe rail, the anchoring member 2 is so entered in its seat that thethreaded aperture 5 will be farthest away from the base of the rail,while at other points on the rail where no sh-plate occurs the anchoringmemberis simply reversed, which will dispose the threaded opening nearerto the base of the rail, the difference being such as to exactlycompensate for the thickness of the fishplate. It is therefore obviousfrom the consideration of the foregoing description that the location ofthe bolt 6 may be readily varied to fully meet all requirements. Byreference to Figs. 2 and `3 it will also be observed that the under sideof the head of the bolt adjacent to the threaded stem is provided with ashoulder 14, which willinsure that the entire under side of the headwill be reliably,l

supported and siistained in its adjusted operative position. It is alsoapparent that, if preferred, instead of the shoulders 14 this part maybe beveled and a conical seat formed for its reception in the plate 9,thereby providing for taking up any wear upon the head of the boltincident to its use.

The parts of my improved securing device, as is obvious, are uniformlyof the same size and are therefore interchangeable and readily appliedto use either upon new construction or for purposes of repair, any oneof the parts readily taking the place of another. The simple means whichI have provided for readily adjusting the anchoring member 2 in positionwill insure that the labor involved will he reduced to a minimum. Bymeans of the base-plate 9 I am enabled to not only reliably sustain thehead of the bolt or that portion thereof opposite the base of the rail,but I also utilize the upwardly-extending flange of said base as a meansfor locking the head of the bolt against casual displacement, and whileI have described the preferred construction and combination of partsdeemed necessary to materialize my invention I desire to comprehend inthis application all substantial equivalents and substitutes which maybe considered to fairly fall within the scope and purview of myinvention, and I therefore do not wish to be confined strictly to theex;- act showing herein made.

'What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a securing device for rails, the combination with a tie having anaperture upon 'one side of the rail, of a bolt-anchoring member 2adapted to fit said opening and provided with a threaded aperture nearone end; a baseplate having a hole in its inner edge and a bolt ittingsaid hole and aperture and having a head adapted to secure the base ofthe rail whereby when the anchoring device 2 is properly/entered in theaperture provided in the tie the bolt will be disposed relatively nearthe base of the rail, substantially as specified and for the purpose setforth.

2. 1n securing devices for track-rails, a tie having an opening disposedat a point adjacent to one edge of the rail in combination with a basemember 3 having an anchoring member2 upon its upper surface adapted toit the opening in the tie, said anchoring member 2 being provided at oneend with a threaded aperture 5 for the reception of the threaded bolt 6whereby said'aperture may be located immediately contiguous to the edgeof the IOO IIO

rail or relatively farther away therefrom, substantially as specifiedand for the purpose set forth.

3. The herein-described securing device for track-rails comprising thebase-section 3 and an oblong rectangular anchoring member 2 secured toits upper surface, said anchoring member being provided with a threadedopening 5 disposed eccentrically with reference to said base member, incombination with a bolt having a threaded stem 6 and a head 7, theformer being adapted to be received by the opening 5, while the latteris designed to engage the base of the rail, all substantially asspecified and for the purpose set forth.

4. In a securing device for track-rails, the combination with a tie, ofa rail-engaging device comprising the anchoring member 2 provided with athreaded opening disposed eccentrically with reference to the basemember and with means to coperate with the tie andw having a boltadapted to engage the base of the rail and hold it against lateralmovement substantially as specified and for the purpose set forth.

5. The herein-described securing device for track-rails comprising anadjustable bol t-carrying device, consisting of the base-section 3 andan anchoring mem'ber 2, the latter being adapted to be adjustablysecured in a suitable opening provided in the tie whereby the threadedaperture 5 formed in said anchoring member'may be disposed with respectto the base of the rail; a bolt fitting said aperture whereby the headof the bolt may be brought to bear upon said base, and the anchoringdevice 6 properly entered in the aperture provided in the tie,substantially as specified and for the purpose set forth.

6. In a securing device for track-rails, the combination with a tiehaving an aperture near the edge of the rail and an anchoring member, abase member and a threaded bolt having ahead, the plate 9 having anaperture l0 and a thickened section 11 and .an upwardly-extending flange12,the latter adapted to be bent down into engagement with the head ofthe bolt as set forth.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

AARON BURR ALLEN.

X'Vitnesses:

MABEL AORTON, C. FRANKENBERG.

